Mario and Sonic are Olympians with a pretty impressive track record. Separately, Mario plays for the Nintendo team and Sonic plays for Sega. But when they join forces, whoa, stand back. They teamed up in Beijing to star in Mario and Sonic at the Summer Olympics and managed to sell over 10 million games as [...]

Many parents are just about ready to give their kids two cans and some string and send them out to play. The days of $300 robots and $100 learning systems are fading fast. At Toy Fair this year, there was a nod towards austerity. But, while lower in costs, the toys did [...]

Our Kids at Play speakers and exhibitors have been mighty busy. And not just readying themselves for CES–there’s a lifetime of events before we even get to Vegas.

Nintendo’s Wii is the Barak Obama of the video game world. Nintendo said if you give families a game that’s fun for the whole family they will come. Change will happen. And so we came and enjoyed as the Wii transcended age and gender barriers.

Young boys like violent games. Parents find it terrifying that their sweet little boys could have an attraction to violence. The friction between the two is age old. But video games give new meaning to graphic violence. Not only do you see it on the screen, you interact with it. [...]